skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The aircraft was in a descending turn when one of the control cables under the wing came off the pulley and was wedged in the pulley bracket, locking the stick. The turn tightened until one of the wings folded up over the propeller and was chopped up.

While the pulley system at the root cause of this could be improved, the failure mode of "floppy wing got chopped up by the prop" seems like there could be quite a lot of ways to get there. Dunno what you think we've done in the last 50 years to improve on this situation, but for anything other than an emergency, I wouldn't want to bet my life on a vehicle like this. Also, I'm having trouble picturing an emergency that would be resolved by an inflatable plane.

Nevermind, I've got it. A single container could hold a hundred inflatable airplanes. That'd be a helluva surprise deployment, if you don't value the lives of your pilots.
The difference is those security chips were used to prevent unlicensed games, not to prevent the games from being played on unlicensed consoles (emulators).

A NES clone without a CIC will play games fine.
> There is also a problem of injecting ethics and politics into those tools, which can produce silly results.

Well, they can, but the "no filter" option does not necessarily generate satisfactory results either. I find it hard to blame Google for not wanting to put their brand on an AI providing a ranking list of races by intelligence or whatever kind of offensive thing people are going to try to make it produce.
ChatGPT told users our startup is a solution to their question ("how to track the location of a phone number"). It wasn't true (and if it was we'd be millionaires overnight). We dealt with support requests, unhappy users, we had to add messages to the onboarding flow. It's frustrating, though lately the ChatGPT responses got getter, more nuanced, with more warnings. Maybe me giving feedback (clicking "bad response") after searching helped. It didn't break our startup, it was just annoying to deal with users believing the hallucinations while not reading our documentation.
They aren’t expensive here locally; it is crazy you can fly 4000km for 10 euros.

Not the point though really; where does that (expensive enough) money go and is the airline taking care of their environmental obligations? Is the gov? Nope. Low/no tax on kerosine and greenwashing. It has to be more expensive and with clearer laws to make it work for the world.
It’s true. My first job was as a cashier at Kroger. I remember looking at the pay tables and being shocked. You could make impressive money as a cashier at Kroger… if you worked there for 30 years. Virtually no one I worked with had even worked there for more than a few years either. Meanwhile, I earned just above the federal minimum wage and multiple hours of my weekly earnings went to little more than protecting my “right” to “no-call, no-show” for six straight days in a row before being fired. I never did this. It seemed unfair. Others did and I had to work that much harder on those days.

One day a union rep stopped by. He was very well-dressed, and he had this beaming smile. He gave me a t-shirt. That pretty much summed up the benefits I experienced.

I remain pro-union, but every time the subject comes up I think there’s a lot more nuance there than people would like to admit. My Dad, for example, has worked at a union job for over 30 years. Ironically, he’s a Republican. He makes decent money now, but the job is very labor intensive, and the healthcare sucks. He’s repeatedly turned down a promotion into management because he’d be out of the union and earning a salary that is not that much higher than what he currently earns per hour. He’s also told me repeatedly that kids just don’t want to work anymore because the turnover rate is high. Many starting out, especially those with dependents, complain that it’s not worth it for what they earn. He holds that although it’s not great it’s enough. Recently, in an attempt to persuade him to take a promotion, he learned that the healthcare plans offered to management are 2-3x cheaper for better benefits than what the union has negotiated. It’s been pretty crazy to watch his opinion slowly begin to shift.
TFA mentions AM causing interference in EVs. More accurately, it's hard to isolate an AM antenna from a transformer system. AM reception in EVs is a feat of engineering. FM and others still require care but are comparatively easier.

AM is unique in its propagation. It can travel very far very easily and even bounce off the ionosphere in "shortwave" AM situations. It's hard to imagine any form of broadcast radio beating AM at its own game here.

Satellite radio could work, but satellites are a lot more expensive than a radio tower.
The teens making friends with AI chatbots
Luckily majority of people think killing innocent people is wrong no matter the ideology.
I had a Honeywell smart thermostat that worked entirely locally with Apple's HomeKit. I haven't used Home Assistant but a cursory Google search implies this would work. My recollection is it was a Honeywell T5. Notably it did sometimes fall off the WiFi for brief periods of time, so I couldn't give the product itself a ringing endorsement.

I usually specifically look for smart devices like this because I dislike the idea of them phoning home for "analytics" or "to enhance my marketing experience" and just firewall them off.

I'm not sure if it's explicitly required, but I've yet to encounter a HomeKit device that didn't work when prohibited from talking to anything outside the LAN.
This is something I hadn't considered, and bears thinking about. In about 50 years, we're going to be top heavy by a long way. Most people on the planet will be over 60, with a small population of people working to support them.

Politicians will be pandering to this old (majority) demographic, whilst the needs of the young who are actually running society can be unheard. I'll be one of the (very) old ones if I'm still around, and I'm not looking forward to this development.
OMGosh. Thank you. I did actually try to find it, but I put in much less effort via Google searches, and obviously failed.

Thanks for taking the time. Now I need to learn more about yt-dlp.

Would you mind sharing the yt-dlp command which helped you get all the subtitles?
A lot of times equipment like that is supplied as part of a system, the DOD buys the system, not the individual components.
studying != credentialed
Total waste of one's attention. M$ makes me be welcome, I go
Huh? You mean facebook posts?
I knew some fighters. One of them was a low kick specialist and his shin felt like one solid piece of concrete. Not sure if it was fused but he couldn’t do certain movements , but he could kick with unbelievable force. I have no idea how his opponents could block this with their own shins. Many years later I still have some sensitive spots on my shins from trying to train with them. It was impossible.
Yes. The world needs another one of these...
> Don't use those sites.

Go harder on that – block those sites in your network outright (such as in Pihole). Else you may end up on them in future, either by accident (clicking a link) or temptation.
You seem to have really misunderstood the essay, then. He uses the word "idleness" to be provocative, but he's not actually saying that people find fulfillment in sitting and staring at the wall. He explicitly calls for efforts to be made to help everyone to learn enough about a wide enough variety of topics that they can choose their own interests to pursue in their leisure time.

From the essay:

> It will be said that, while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not know how to fill their days if they had only four hours of work out of the twenty-four. In so far as this is true in the modern world, it is a condemnation of our civilization; it would not have been true at any earlier period. There was formerly a capacity for light-heartedness and play which has been to some extent inhibited by the cult of efficiency.

> ...

> When I suggest that working hours should be reduced to four, I am not meaning to imply that all the remaining time should necessarily be spent in pure frivolity. I mean that four hours' work a day should entitle a man to the necessities and elementary comforts of life, and that the rest of his time should be his to use as he might see fit. It is an essential part of any such social system that education should be carried further than it usually is at present, and should aim, in part, at providing tastes which would enable a man to use leisure intelligently. I am not thinking mainly of the sort of things that would be considered 'highbrow'. Peasant dances have died out except in remote rural areas, but the impulses which caused them to be cultivated must still exist in human nature. The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on. This results from the fact that their active energies are fully taken up with work; if they had more leisure, they would again enjoy pleasures in which they took an active part.
No, it's a statement that the "cutoff" was chosen on questionable grounds. Defend it.
+1

I’ve been using remix for the last 6 months and I’m super happy with it.
Looks about the same as other evergreens like Politics and the English Language and The Story of Mel to me. Greenest (i.e. earliest) evergreen is almost certainly Story of Mel, ever-est (most posted), I'm not sure but I want to say I've seen bigger ones than either of those.
There are many variables to procurement and all have various levels of scrutiny. I'm not an expert, but here are a few routes to paint a picture.

If it's a part of an "official" system/package from a big defense contractor there's little chance it's counterfeit. There's quite of bit of scrutiny there, unless the contractor providing that system is buying these off Amazon which seems the lest likely scenario. But maybe a small company setup with the sole purpose of winning the bid for an F-15 simulator bids so low that they do buy this stuff, it's possible.

As others mentioned, there are layers of rules about justification if you don't go for the lowest price, preference for small business, and getting bids.

Finally, if you just need something, the person ordering the item isn't the person buying the item. The IT professional orders a Cisco router, provides some possible places to source it and turns that into contracting/procurement. The procurement team will then actually go buy it and often they will go try to find the cheapest option and they're not experts so they'll often buy the wrong damn thing entirely. Want a 500ft roll of yellow shielded Cat6? Here's 1000ft of blue UTP Cat3 because "it was cheaper".
>Without numbers, which you don't have because no one does, that's total nonsense. Price determines options, not buy/rent. If the price of buying were lower than current rent, more people would have options, not fewer.

More people would have options to buys, absolutely. Those who can't would have major problems. There are millions of people who can afford rent, but not pull together a down payment, who would have their options reduced.

The purpose of banks is to discriminate good loans from bad. If you have a system where everyone qualifies for government lending, you will have massive losses. If you add restrictions to government lending, but renting is banned, the only option is social housing, which i don't think would be successful in the US. I don't think the GDP can support the losses.
It’s going to take some time but it’s going to take over.

Next really fucked up with the app router, and people are realizing everything is just a trap to get more customers on vercel.
Remember: Google is an advertising company. They do not care about their users as long as they continue to use the search to click on any of the four or five advertisements.
I guess we can simply ask in the official forum whether chatgpt.com is a legit domain owned by OpenAI to settle the question.
Ask HN: How to sell a product in a data-intesive sector with no prior data?
I've worked in a local e-ticketing company and after quitting my job with pandemic, I have built a commission-free and service fee free e-ticketing gateway platform for event organizers.

For those who don't know, e-ticketing industry in my country (Türkiye) is mainly run by Ticketmaster and other big companies who charge commissions around 10.00% and service fees projected to customers between 5.00% - 10.00% + service fee. They usually pay the total amount after event is done which leaves organizers in overnight interest loss up to 3v months.

I've built a platform that you can embed a simple web widget to sell tickets and get paid to their bank account directly from the website or instagram. Also I've agreed with a local vPOS/payment provider gateway company that will solve the e-commerce onboarding part and can offer credit card fees as low as 2.00% for the organizers.

I believe my product is superior in many ways but most of the time I face "they have a quite big customer base, they have data, they are the ones that are selling the tickets" behavior. I don't know how to compete with such circumstance.

Any experience from founders or sales people is much appreciated, I can demo/pitch the product on demand (It's a local product but if you wish to see, https://demo.hibilet.com)

Thanks!
CSV files mean a lot of work and are expensive… couldn’t agree more. I had the distinct “pleasure” of working with the food plan system for a get of around 60,000 people. Every iteration of every plan option across every demographic of person was controlled by the biggest CSV you’ve seen. And it changed multiple times a year, requiring a series of review meetings among a small group of IT to review and update everything. It was absurd how that entire system ran off a CSV.
Doesn't the lower bidder still have to provide proof of a chain of custody for sensitive equipment?

Just one procurement officer with the slightest doubt, and calling up someone at Cisco HQ to double check a serial number, would have discovered this scam almost instantly.
Pablo Neruda.
This is shocking misinformation.

> Meat is considered a complete protein source, meaning it contains all nine essential amino acids that your body cannot produce on its own

Do carbs?

> Carbohydrates primarily provide energy for your body and are not a significant source of amino acids. Essential amino acids, which your body cannot produce on its own, are primarily found in protein-rich foods such as meat, dairy, eggs, and some plant-based sources like quinoa and soy

So you're 100% wrong: carbs do not provide essential amino acids and meat does.

The mechanism behind type 2 diabetes is well known and it's all about eating too much carbs.

Sugars and carbs are converted to glucose in your blood.

You can't have too much (or too little) glucose in blood.

Some of it is burned as fuel but the rest has to be removed somehow so body starts producing insulin to push glucose into cells where it's get converted into fat.

If you can't produce insulin, you have type 1 diabetes and need insulin injections.

If you overeat carbs you store more and more fat. You become over-weight and insulin gets worse at moving glucose from your bloodstream.

The diagnostic test for diabetes is literally: do you have too much glucose in your blood (compared to what is healthy range) or related test a1c which tests for elevated levels of insulin in your blood.

If you know the above, then how in the world can you claim that carbs are not the problem? It is literally the thing that causes diabetes.

The simple solution to reversing type 2 diabetes is therefore to stop eating carbs. That's low carb diets like keto or carnivore.

You make very wrong assertions (carbs are not the problem; carbs have all macronutrients; low carb diets are bad) without a single supporting argument or reference.
I would say that for our purposes, the best example of jargon is the Jargon File: http://catb.org/jargon/html/

A useful quote from the above:

> Linguists usually refer to informal language as ‘slang’ and reserve the term ‘jargon’ for the technical vocabularies of various occupations. However, the ancestor of this collection was called the ‘Jargon File’, and hacker slang is traditionally ‘the jargon’. When talking about the jargon there is therefore no convenient way to distinguish it from what a linguist would call hackers' jargon — the formal vocabulary they learn from textbooks, technical papers, and manuals.

What you call new technical terms is the jargon of technical pursuits. The post modernism stuff is the jargon of "studies" departments. There is also military jargon, for another example. The term is not inherently derogatory.
Right, regulatory agencies should absolutely resolve false advertising disputes, and the FDA is well-positioned to assess claims about medicinal efficacy. I don't think it should be able to prevent people from voluntarily accessing experimental treatments they can't verify, knowing the risks of doing that, which they currently do
Sounds fair if people stop complaining about homelessness from houses that aren't built. Roofs will be for homeowners.
Keto isn't no carbs, but it's a pretty small number compared to typical diets.

It's not for everyone, but it can help some people manage blood sugar.
My dad was a firefighter and worked in fire prevention as well as investigation back in the day. It was a rather common cause of death that someone would fall asleep smoking and ignite their mattress. Also tons of fires were caused by flicked butts (I have to say that treating the world as their ashtray is one aspect of smokers that I find rather angering). So I believe there was good reason for the fire retardants to be added.

Also, I do appreciate the other comments/suggestions down the chain.
Depends on how long ago it was.

Two billion years ago? We wouldn't find traces of their industrial activity in rocks - almost all the rocks are gone. We wouldn't notice evidence of mining activity - those mines have been buried by sedimentation, subduction, or vulcanism. We wouldn't find it in atmospheric gas isotopes - those isotopes have long since decayed.

Now if it were 10 million years ago, it is much more likely that we would know.
We are talking about a code generator. Dev tools ought to be neutral when it comes to politics and ethics otherwise you get a smart hammer that will refuse to nail Jesus to a cross. That's not how tools work.
I think your down votes are because people are tired of rebutting the same old anti-nuclear arguments.

"Civilizationally" The evidence is nuclear has remained safer than alternatives well over half a century even when we have failed organizationally to do the right things (e.g. Chernobyl, Fukushima). IMO let us move on and use technologies that might prevent civilizational collapse rather than avoid them and make such a thing more likely. (Although it's unlikely under any scenario.)

"Proliferation" as a product of civilian nuclear power has been studied and discussed for its entire history and has been disproven. There's no link. In general having civilian nuclear power allows more oversight by international bodies about what you're doing, whereas regimes pursuing nuclear weapons tend to pursue them in secret and using infrastructure fit for the purpose of producing weapons materials.

"Fuel efficiency" simply isn't important when the fuel is so abundant and so cheap. We can afford to worry about that in future if we ever wind up building enough nuclear power it becomes a problem. If anything this is a good reason to stop freaking out about "nuclear waste" i.e. mildly used and 95% reusable fuel and leave that where it's been sitting perfectly safe for decades, above ground.

If someone had the time they could mine every nuclear thread on Hacker News and pull out all the common tropes and rebut them someplace in a similar vein to Skeptical Science's list for Climate Change (https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php). @acidburnNSA's https://whatisnuclear.com/ might be the closest thing. But then nobody would read it, and the problem would continue.
In Europe almost no building is made of wood, except for decorative floors.
So true! And then you jinx it when you start talking about ...
Just saw this, but for others wanted to add that you don't need the $800 watch for access to most of the health and fitness metrics and supporting features.

Pretty much any of the more recent Forerunner series will do. The Forerunner 165 starts at $250 and the Forerunner 255 has been discounted to this level several times as well. They both have nearly all the available metrics and many sports modes, as well as triathlon modes most of us probably never need. They sync with the same (free) Garmin Connect smartphone app and cloud service.

So with any of these watches, you can sample the Garmin features. Upgrading to a more expensive watch later would mostly be for case material and size, aesthetics, or conspicuous consumption reasons.

The biggest functional difference between their lower price and expensive watches is that they limit on-watch mapping to only the expensive watches starting around $400-600 when on sale. The cheaper watches can only show a "breadcrumb" trail of your path in an ongoing activity, but no mapping of the surrounding terrain, roads, or landmarks.

There is also a funny distinction where their "outdoor" watches work a bit differently than their "health fitness" watches, developed in separate product divisions. But, these differences seem to be narrowing in recent years.

The other major feature tier is "music" which is a roughly $50-100 premium for the Forerunner 165 and 255 having non-music and music variants. This is where the watch can store and play music through bluetooth headphones, without a phone being present.
> pre-diabetes [...] is rather close to the median level

but according to the NIH, 30.7% of Americans are overweight, and 42.4% are obese. as the median American is overweight, it doesn't seem a stretch to claim that the median American is also pre-diabetic? I don't know whether it's true or not, but your evidence seems a bit thin.
Contact forms are a way for companies to offload work onto you, so the data you're sending them is structured in their preferred manner.

That argument goes away with LLMs, which can be decently used to process free-form mail. But then, a company with an already awful contact form will hardly do the work to implement that.

I guess there's space for a startup doing that and selling it as a service.
It's not religious to recognize that medical advances, especially in pharmaceuticals, have done more to extend lifespans and save lives in the last 100+ years than anything else.

The pharma industry has been consistently producing what would easily be called life saving miracles in any other context. Anyone unable to see that is the biased one.
The term of art in the industry is they are “QSRs”: “quick service restaurants”
Those are different kinds of tools. Clazy is pretty much a linter. Scan-build is a traditional static analyser. It tries to find bugs or possible bugs but it's not trying to disprove the presence of bugs.

CBMC is a formal verification tool which tries to prove that there aren't any bugs (where "bugs" means things like UB).
The law says they need AM radio -- it doesn't say it needs to be good.
> it incorrectly rejects some valid emails

Stuff like this is a good way to reject people who are likely to be annoying to hear from.

And these articles always miss the point that the company doesn’t necessarily want to hear from you.
From Bigram to Infinigram
Remotion is the best alternative imo
The customers for Backstage aren't startups but mostly big corporations with hundreds of developer teams. Those corporations want to get rid of these hacky internal solutions and many don't even have one.